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Summer Schools and Events Manager

External and Strategic Development Service
Docklands
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Head of Education and Community Partnerships
Line management of Partnership Officer
Co-ordination of staff to deliver including academic, service and external
staff, hourly paid lecturers and hourly paid students
Staff schools and colleges, staff in UEL support services, Schools and
Colleges Partnership Manager, Head of Business Partnerships, a range of
local organisations engaging with school and college students to develop
skills and aspirations

Job Purpose:
To develop, co-ordinate, deliver and quality assure the UEL summer school and outreach events
programme.

Main Duties:
1. To create a coherent programme of summer schools for students aged 14-19 from our partner
schools and colleges. To additionally lead on the creation of a full events programme linked to
our core outreach themes of Enterprise, Sport, STEM and Creative
2.

To liaise with academic staff to create appropriate and high quality curriculum content
alongside a range of social, skills and progression related content

3.

To project manage the development and delivery of summer schools and other events aligned
to our core outreach themes

4.

To liaise internally to secure the best contributions to the programme from a range of staff

5.

To liaise with staff in schools and colleges to negotiate and tailor the offer to ensure
recruitment targets are met and to ensure the best experience for students participating

6.

To event manage all activities including room bookings, co-ordinating staff and student tutors,
programme development, and planning additional resources

7.

To create and manage a marketing campaign to attract students to our summer schools and
events. To work with Corporate marketing through existing communication channels and to
develop new ones in order to achieve this, including new social media, web page and case
studies

8.

To design methods for capturing monitoring data for all activity delivered as part of the
Summer Schools and Events Programme and to co-ordinate this data capture

9.

To design methods for and to manage the capture of participant feedback (including staff
feedback) to monitor the quality of the offer. Further, to suggest methods for assessing impact
of our summer schools and events and to implement the methods selected by head of team

10. To plan for and manage safe learning environments for all events using best practice in child
safeguarding and risk management
11. To contribute to the relationship management model in the Education and Community
Partnerships team by particularly focusing on a portfolio of lead contacts that support our
overall relationships with partner schools and colleges
12. To contribute to the development of an aftercare package for students who have attended our
summer schools and events
13. To develop publicity materials to support and market our offer including zap banners, posters,
web pages, case studies and study guides
14. To promote the value of progressing to university in all aspects of the role and to act as an
ambassador for UEL
15. To promote equality of opportunity through all aspects of the role including through the use of
role models and programme/event content which reflects UELs diverse community
16. To undertake evening work, occasional overnight stays and weekend work as required by the
post
17. To undertake other duties commensurate with the grade as directed by the Head of education
and Community Partnerships or the Director of Service

PERSON SPECIFICATION
QUALIFICATIONS:
Essential criteria
1. First degree
Desirable criteria
2. Teaching qualification

KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

Essential ctiteria
3. Experience of developing and delivering summer schools and other themed events
4. Experience of delivering activities for young people, particularly in the 14-19 phase of
education
5. A thorough understanding of managing safe learning environments including child
safeguarding policy and practice
6. Experience of project planning and managing multi-stranded educational projects
7. Experience of designing and implementing systems for capturing monitoring and other data to
evaluate the student experience and the impact of the activities delivered
Desirable criteria
8. Experience of marketing events via printed materials, web and social media such as Facebook
and Twitter
9. COMMUNICATION:
A. Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to liaise with a range of
support and teaching staff across the university and in partner schools and colleges and other
local organisations
B. Experience of communicating with students to understand their specific and general needs

10. TEAM WORK AND MOTIVATION:

Experience of managing staff and students to deliver workshops whilst ensuring the quality of
provision

11. PLANNING AND ORGANISING:

Experience of planning, prioritising and organising the work of yourself and others with limited
supervision, engendering strong team working to ensure projects are delivered as specified and on
time
12. INITIATIVE AND PROBLEM SOLVING:
Experience of using initiative and creativity to resolve problems by analysing a range of information
including diverse or opposing information in order to find practical and suitable solutions
13. LIAISON AND NETWORKING
Ability to negotiate with partners to develop provision including selecting the most appropriate
content and delivery method

OTHER ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

14. Ability to use Microsoft Office effectively and accurately
15. Ability and willingness to work flexibly including evenings and weekends and some short stays
on campus in campus accommodation

16. Commitment to and understanding of equal opportunities in a diverse and multicultural

environment